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Don Siegel
Director -
Jack Finney
Novel -
Daniel Mainwaring
Screenplay -
Richard Collins
Screenplay -
Joseph Kish
Set Decoration -
Ted Haworth
Production Design -
Emile LaVigne
Makeup Artist -
Richard Maybery
Assistant Director
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Phills2
6/3/2026 2:43:43PM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers has always been on the top of my list of best horror movies ever made. It is solidly suspenseful throughout from beginning to end. The stars even had wax moldings made of themselves to use as the pods, or counterfiet alien clones. It has a lot to say about how modern progress has alienated the individual by suppressing intinctive emotions. I've even recorded it without the tacked on beginning and ending added after test screenings so audiences would not feel excessively depressed about a negative finish. By some accounts, a few viewers didn't take the original version seriously enough.
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Mack LomaxJ. Pat O'Malley
Railroad Baggage Handler (extra)Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Miles J. BennellLarry Gates
Dr. Dan 'Danny' KauffmanVirginia Christine
Wilma LentzCarolyn Jones
Theodora 'Teddy' BelicecSam Peckinpah
Charlie the Meter ReaderWhit Bissell
Emergency Room Psychiatrist